4.  The applicant was born in 1949 and resides in the town of Novogrodivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine.
5.  The applicant instituted two sets of proceedings in the Novogrodivskyy Town Court of Donetsk Region against the “Novogrodivska” Mining Company - a State-owned enterprise - to recover salary arrears and compensation due to him.
6.  On 23 March and 20 April 2001 the Novogrodivskyy Town Court found in favour of the applicant (Рішення Новогродівського міського суду Донецької області) and awarded him 2,958.73[1] Ukrainian hryvnias (“UAH”) and UAH 3,114.24[2], respectively. These judgments were sent for enforcement to the Novogrodivskyy Town Bailiffs' Service (Відділ Державної виконавчої служби Новогродівського міського управління юстиції).
7.  In May 2001 the applicant instituted proceedings in the Novogrodivskyy Town Court of the Donetsk Region against the Novogrodivskyy Town Bailiffs' Service for failure to enforce the judgment of 23 March 2001 in his favour. On 14 August 2001 the Town Court rejected the applicant's claim, finding no fault had been committed by the Bailiffs' Service. The court stated that the Bailiffs' Service had acted properly in enforcing the judgment of 23 March 2001. However, by a number of decisions of the Commercial Court of the Donetsk Region, the Bailiffs' Service had been prohibited from selling the property of the Mining Company, due to the bankruptcy proceedings which had been initiated against the company. On 5 November 2001 the Court of Appeal of the Donetsk Region dismissed the applicant's appeal. On 23 May 2002 the Supreme Court of Ukraine rejected the applicant's appeal in cassation.
8.  In October 2001, the applicant instituted another set of proceedings in the Novogrodivskyy Town Court of the Donetsk Region against the Novogrodivskyy Town Bailiffs' Service for failure to enforce the judgment of 20 April 2001 in his favour. On 17 October 2001, the Town Court rejected the applicant's claim, for the same reasons as before. On 11 February 2002 the Court of Appeal of the Donetsk Region dismissed the applicant's appeal. On 18 March 2002 the Novogrodivskyy Town Court of the Donetsk Region fixed a time-limit until 30 March 2002 for the applicant to bring a cassation appeal in compliance with the procedural formalities prescribed by law. The parties did not submit any further information about these proceedings.
9.  On 26 December 2001, the ban on the forced sale of assets belonging to undertakings in which the State holds at least 25% of the share capital was entrenched in the Law on the Introduction of a Moratorium on the Forced Sale of Property.
10.  In February 2003 the Novogrodivska Mining Company was reorganised and became a structural subdivision of the Selidovugol State Mining Company. As the latter thereby became the debtor, in February 2004 the enforcement proceedings were transferred to the Selidivskyy Town Bailiffs' Service (Відділ Державної виконавчої служби Селідівського міського управління юстиції).
11.  By 31 August 2004 the judgments in the applicant's favour were enforced in full.
12.  The applicant instituted proceedings in the Selidivskyy Town Court of the Donetsk region against the Selidivskyy Town Bailiffs' Service claiming compensation for material and moral damage caused to him by the non-enforcement of the judgments in his favour. On 27 December 2004 the court found against the applicant. The applicant appealed against this judgment. The parties did not provide any further information about these proceedings.
13.  The applicant instituted other proceedings in the Novogrodivskyy Town Court of Donetsk Region against the “Novogrodivska” Mining Company claiming further salary arrears allegedly due to him for the period of the non-enforcement by the Company of the judgments in his favour. On 19 January 2005 the court found against the applicant. The applicant appealed against this judgment. The parties did not provide any further information about these proceedings.